Author:
Charles Brian Quinn
At last month’s Atlanta Ruby User Group (Meetp), I gave a presentation on “Teaching Ruby on Rails.”
I’ve taught Ruby on Rails for the Big Nerd Ranch for almost 4 years now, and given on-site trainings all over the world, from Wells Fargo to the New York Times, to startups and even government agencies.…
Author:
Aaron Hillegass
This one is not really crap; it is just a sad omission in the Objective-C 2 language.
I spend a lot of time debugging other people’s code, and a surprisingly common error is a misspelled delegate or datasource method. Often I’ll see a method like this:
- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableview:(UITableView *)tv
{ ...…
Author:
Joe Conway
Aaron Hillegass’ last post on initializers for UIViewController was spot-on. In fact, when you come to our iPhone Bootcamp, you’ll learn all about it.
However, the extra typing every time we create a file is a nuisance. When you create a subclass of a UIViewController, chances are you really want to get to work on the important stuff.…
Author:
Aaron Hillegass
Before I go into another shortcoming of UIKit, I’d like to make it plain that I genuinely like most of UIKit. In many ways it is much better than AppKit. I love UIControl, and I think that UITableViewCell being a subclass of UIView is a huge step forward.…
Author:
Aaron Hillegass
Last week, my colleague Joe Conway wrote a posting suggesting that dot-notation was not a great addition to the Objective-C language and that he felt that programmers should not use it. Â There was outrage. I, myself, was shocked that people cared at all.…
Author:
Joe Conway
When I teach, I always make sure to mention the dot-notation addition to Objective-C 2.0. Then, I make sure to tell the students never to use it ever, ever, ever again. But why? Why this seemingly irrational hatred of dot-notation? Is this a style choice and us “bracketeers” are being hard-headed?…
Author:
Charles Brian Quinn
I just wanted to post a quick note to anyone searching for problems with Rails Page Caching with Apache.
We just helped a client through a tricky issue that manifested itself through some strangely generated cached files.
The Problem
A visit to the resource:
http://example.com/articles
Would correctly generate the page:
/path/to/app/public/articles.html
Subsequent visits would load the cached page.…